Zombies in popular culture

Cultures are traditionally studied as systems comprised of spatially co-present individuals sharing similar social practices and ideologies, with the environment they inhabit being considered the center of their traditions and beliefs. With this understanding of culture, distinction between cultures can be decided territorially through the recognition of state controlled borders. Through this understanding of culture, container theories have largely pervaded research into international…

help to be oversensitive, but sometimes it’s hard to avoid it. “Literary intellectuals love to sneer at polls and surveys,” writes Dominic Sandbrook in his determinedly informative and frequently entertaining attempt to analyse what makes British culture tick, “but historians cannot afford to do so.” The survey being putatively sneered at reveals the immense popularity of The Lord of the Rings; presumably the implications of that popularity, rather than the fact of it, which must surely be…

had thousands of years preserved underneath its streets. Archeologists and historians are working together to find out the story of this city, but often times the translation of academic findings to the rest of the world is not fulfilled. In popular culture today there are many gross interpretations of roman life that misguide the common consumer of information to get a terrible understanding of what roman life was like. There is a man though that is trying to change that and his name is Alberto…

negatives that come with the progress and changes in the world. Some may argue for or against the changes in wireless media or how popular social media has become. There is no doubt that these things have influenced nearly every aspect of our lives and has changed how we do things day to day. I will not argue that these developments in technology and their impact on our culture have not changed how we think, because it definitely has. I feel there is a positive for every negative in this new…

them distinctive in global cinematic domains. Through the simulations of Britishness, The ceremony thus becomes a global audio-visual commodities (Tzanelli, 2013: 59). The performance heavily emphasizes on the nationally iconic personality from popular culture such as Mr Bean and James Bond and successfully achieved a blending of the seriousness and entertainment. In the next section ‘Happy and Glorious’, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh enter the stadium, the royal navy carrying the…

of classic books and great writers appeared at that time. I believe that in that inevitable trend, more writers tried to do some experiments in the fiction and mystery book field, just like what is happening right now. “Authors and artists of popular culture commonly report similar experiences, and they just as commonly identify those events as the source of their creative powers” (3). I guess creative source is another important reason. In paranormal topic works, daily life doesn’t have to be…

The term ‘popular culture’ refers to a culture built on what the general public desires opposed to the elite class that usually have the control. This applies to things within society such as music, food, fashion, even religion. Whether someone considers themselves to be religious or not, it affects their life in numerous ways. If someone is religious, they most likely participate in religious rituals, practices and makes life decisions with their faith in mind. On the contrary, if someone is…

represents everything God is not. He is evil, murderous, a liar, and a tempter. He is one of the biggest influences in the bible, manipulating people to choose sin. However, his character is never fully revealed, leaving a lot of questions unanswered. Popular culture has come to answer these questions by creating satanic figures for contemporary audiences. In this essay I will mainly be using a ‘world in, and in front of the text’ approach to analyse how Satan’s appearance and attributes are…

Introduction Popular culture is a necessity nowadays because if people do not follow the trends in the society, they might be marginalized from the mainstream culture and it would be difficult for them to reconnect with others. Although there is no accurate definition to describe what popular culture is, it is seen as a form of communication that has a connection with the mainstream culture which subdivides into mass culture and folklore and folk culture (Buhmann, Hellmueller, & Bosshart, 2015)…

Introduction Popular culture is defined as a form of identity and expression that is frequently encountered and widely accepted, approved and liked and characteristic that are unique to a particular society at a specific time. There are many sources of popular culture. The primary source of popular culture is the mass media, especially film, television, video game, tradition, and the Internet. Advances in communication tend to allow a greater transmission of ideas via word of mouth through cell…